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12/17/2013 10:23PM

Haiyan Refugees Have Uncertain Road Ahead

In recent weeks, more than 22,000 typhoon survivors have arrived in Manila, some shell-shocked with nowhere to go. The WSJ's Te-Ping Chen speaks with Oplan Hatid's James Deakin about efforts to find refugees new homes and jobs.

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I ... the the ... I ... tens of thousands of survivors fled from typhoon stricken areas to the capital city of the Philippines ... I'm sipping ten with the Wall Street Journal ... joining me today from Manila ... is James deacon of open anted ... concerning this was his men so and making sure that many of the people and actually have a place to go ... um think of any stake in its ... a strapping young ... check back ... can you start by giving us an idea of what it was like to be a military airbase CBS thousand survivors lending ... me what was this state like at the time ... I was really overwhelming actually on so really it's a matter of fact ... it's something new we seen the movie so ... aam you barely have time to sort of ... get to know what's going on because these people are just so that that devastated that lost everything ... and they come in here you will that a lot of these people ... didn't even know they're at the Manila they thought there other places who were another sign in ... and out the C one thirty so just taking them ... where ever so the new jumbo plane in India and leave the store and ... they seem to send it to the city of Manila ... so walking around and seeing the devastation this test in the early days ... on the trauma ... it was really overwhelmed ... and this idea of a stuffy operation how many families it can take to their destinations and where were they must a growing family friends in uni people just have no place to go ... well we ... what we want to do was off to the people at least to go ... up a ride home and was just worn out of budgets a simple ... requirement of ... a guy a litle ... went on down to the base and he wanted to offer to sell ... any notice of the recovery backers of the volunteers and everyone reading ... so he was last up to a social welfare worker and said ... what's this the beginning she said that is to get money ... he said ok will look for a really nice she said ... well these people in no way out of your soul will transform into hell ... Satan up one step better he said well done ... and then by the weeks and we had over a thousand registered ... volunteers driving people around ... while I'm there were some things people die ... those crazy but I mean ... these people were going everywhere from ... Mr. Miller light at the nearby bought everywhere from five along this week ... to five hundred km away so overwhelming that we would actually end up ... getting restless with option them out ... because people are literally fighting over trying to tell what's been sexting out now since the typhoon struck ... for many this people who again is a true during a transitional state taxes if ever but how many people want jobs have gotten jobs use ... of a ... child ... we did we know that doesn't ever been to a child care before much less ... organized ... but analysts said that around twenty thousand people only two weeks we thought well we we did that box that so ... this is ... what will the problem of the time it needed to and from the mirror ... and that's basically what we did so these people really walk away with something and down ... although we do in our goal of five thousand ... only to the seniors it was forty two percent higher rate which is four times the industry average of any job there may be ... I ... more must I go to Des beest dot com ... thanks much for us